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Even if Sidwell middle school isn't quite a wetland, it can still lay claim to being the greenest school in the U.S., becoming the first institution to earn a platinum rating from the U.S. Green Building Council, an architectural watchdog organization...
...Republican base is "frustrated with us for not carrying through on the spending issue and overspending. It's the reason we're not in the majority and it's going to take us a while to earn that trust back," DeMint told TIME in an interview in his offices last week. The Senator heads a group called the Senate Steering Committee - an organization founded more than three decades ago by Senator Jesse Helms that purposefully eschews the label "Republican" in order to stress its independence. Its members, though, are all Republican, and the group has grown from a few Senators...
...once again this summer. Akpan made the final cut for the U-20 World Cup team, and helped supply the pressure that caused an own-goal against Uruguay in their Round of Sixteen game. The Grand Prairie native also helped his club team, the Dallas Texans 88 Red, to earn the youth national championship, and was recently selected as Ivy League Player of the Week. This season has also seen other Crimson players in the national spotlight. Junior Michael Fucito was named to Top Drawer Soccer’s Team of the Week, as well as the Ivy League Honor...
...Hanzich, a native of Orange County, Calif., earned a slew of academic honors at Harvard while studying government, and served as a leader of several campus groups. He graduated as a member of the Phi Beta Kappa honor society and attended the University of Cambridge on a prestigious scholarship to earn a master’s degree in public health. He was a finalist for the Rhodes scholarship...
...address the problem. Despite the government's upbeat post-apartheid "rainbow nation" theme, official statistics underscore the persistence of harsh inequalities: last year more than 60% of black South Africans scraped by on less than $100 a month, up from 50% in 1996. By contrast, only 4% of whites earn that little. "At the very top there is a lot of integration," says Frans Cronjé, head of development for the South African Institute of Race Relations in Johannesburg. "But at the bottom it is a different picture...